[vsnet-grb-info 7593] GRB 090418 OA candidate

[GCN Circulars]

TITLE:   GCN CIRCULAR
NUMBER:  9148
SUBJECT: GRB 090418 OA candidate
DATE:    09/04/18 11:16:22 GMT
FROM:    Ryan Chornock at UC Berkeley  <chornock at astro.berkeley.edu>

R. Chornock, S. B. Cenko, W. Li, and A. V. Filippenko (UC Berkeley) report on
behalf of the KAIT GRB team:

The Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT) at Lick Observatory automatically
slewed to the position of GRB 090418 and discovered a new new point source not
present in the DSS at coordinates (J2000):  17:57:15.17  +33:24:21.1

at an unfiltered magnitude of approximately 15.8 at UT=11:10:57.  Further
observations are in progress.